Villarsalinas in NYC

NBC 4 led tonight's late newscast with a five-minute piece by Ana Garcia reporting that Mirthala Salinas got the only one-on-one interview with Mayor Villaraigosa during a trip to New York in March 2006. She was there reporting for Telemundo 52, apparently after their affair had begun. Garcia also said the November 2005 evening when Villaraigosa was famously spotted with a bottle of wine at her Valley apartment was the same night of his controversial flight to the Rosa Parks funeral on the Ameriquest corporate jet. According to Garcia, he had been at the Telemundo studios in Burbank until 6:15 pm, then was with Salinas until catching the flight — undercutting his claim that taking a donor's jet was necessary because of timing. (The mayor later reimbursed Ameriquest, a campaign contributor and his former employer, for the cost of a commercial flight, but not the company's true cost of providing the plane.) In the Channel 4 piece, Garcia said the mayor's office first refused a demand for all of his emails to staff, but later clarified that he text messages but only receives email on his Blackberry.

Jay Leno's monologue: "It was so hot today that Antonio Villaraigosa had an affair with Ann Coulter just to cool off."